"We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers."

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Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

Thomas Cech

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

Source : "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.
“The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.”
“You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama. It was before even the civil rights stuff even started. You can imagine the hatred, although we didn't have it as bad as other parts of the country, I must say.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.”
“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.311, Macmillan
“Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.”
“A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you.”
“For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.”

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